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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

"Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."
Explore more quotes by Conor Oberst

"I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie."

"I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life."

"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness."
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